No change

This is something I wrote 20 years ago in a letter to the editor of our local paper. It was after the 1994 presidential election but it seems appropriate for today. The election results from last November have been analyzed primarily based on their impact on the two major political parties. In any general election some always vote Republican and about an equal number always vote Democrat and they cancel each other. This leaves the independents to determine the outcome. They tend to vote issues for and against, but mostly against and I call these against issues, the fed ups. They are fed up with people who consider themselves victims of some injustice and who refuse to accept responsibility for their actions. They are fed up with children who refuse to show respect toward their elders and for adults who fail to behave in ways that deserve respect. They are fed up with laws that encourage unmarried teen girls to have babies. They are fed up with teachers who must spend all their time being parents instead of teaching. They are fed up with teen boys in jeans who rob liquor stores going to jail while men in suits who rob S&L's go free. They are fed up with courts that are more concerned with the rights of criminals than with the rights of victims. They are fed up with political correctness run amok. They are fed up with jails so full of pot smokers that we must release hardened criminals because of lack of space. They are fed up with elected officials who take money from PAC's and maintain that those gifts do not affect how they vote. They are fed up with a system that gives jobs to lesser qualified applicants because of some real or perceived past injustice. They are fed up with tax dollars being spent on illegal aliens to provide benefits that bona fide citizens must do without. They are fed up with constitutionalist that maintain that religion should stay out of government instead of government staying out of religion. They are fed up with not receiving a proper return on the investment of their tax dollars. In general these independent voters view government in the ways it effects their personal value system and for the most part they don't like what they see.